**Briefly** in response to a request over LinkedIn... :-)
Here's a couple links that may be helpful regarding IOT and cloud security best practices!
You can use the NIST guidelines here:
https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/nist-cybersecurity-iot-program
Here's a couple AWS resources:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/iot/latest/developerguide/iot-security-identity.html
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/iot/category/developer-resources/iot-security
